{"id":55019,"date":"2022-12-03T11:44:22","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T19:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55019"},"modified":"2022-12-05T11:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T19:44:48","slug":"white-house-resumes-holiday-festivities-after-2021s-pandemic-pause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=55019","title":{"rendered":"White House resumes holiday festivities after 2021\u2019s pandemic pause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is once again bustling with guests, revelers and holiday activity in a sign of how the\u00a0Biden\u00a0administration views the state of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Biden and first lady\u00a0Jill Biden\u00a0hosted hundreds of guests at the White House this week for an official state visit\u00a0from French President\u00a0Emmanuel Macron\u00a0and his wife, Brigitte. In the coming weeks, hundreds more guests will filter in and out of White House holiday parties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Both state visits and the annual holiday gatherings were paused last year as the omicron variant of COVID-19 caused a spike in cases and serious illness around the country. The return of both fixtures signals the White House believes the country is in a much better position to keep cases and deaths at bay this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House is once again&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55020,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55019\/revisions\/55020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}